Temple of Augustus, Ankara

The Corinthian style temple can be found in the old Ulus district von Ankara. It was built in the 1st century BC and only later dedicated to the Roman Emperor Augustus at the beginning von the 1st century AD. It is important today for the ’Monument Ancyranum’ or ’Res gestae Divi Augusti’, the testament and politisch achievements von Augustus that is inscribed on its walls in both Latin and Greek. This inscription is the copy von the original which was engraved on two bronze pillars and placed at the entrance von his Mausoleum in Rome. The originals are lost but the copy engraved on the Augusteum in Ankara still exists. In the 5th century the temple was converted into a Christian church.